140,000 Origami Cranes Hiroshima Workshop.


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On 5 August, the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre is holding a special Hiroshima Day Origami Cranes workshop. Reflectionpic2April2017.png

Folding paper cranes is done in memory of all those killed by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs because of the story of Sadako, a Japanese girl who was just two years old, living in Hiroshima when
the atom bomb was dropped. Sadako later developed leukemia and while in hospital heard the legend that anyone who folded 1000 paper cranes would have their wish granted. Wishing for peace Sadako set out to fold One Thousand Paper Cranes before she died aged 12. A statue of Sadako holding a golden crane stands in the Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Park.

This huge number represents all the people killed by the devastating Hiroshima atomic bomb in 1945 (that year alone).

This event is being held early to commemorate those who lost their lives when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped.

Come and join us to help make Origami paper cranes!

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